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Mark Barkawitz has earned local and national awards for his fiction, poetry, essay, and screenwriting. His work has appeared in newspapers ( L.A. Herald-Examiner, Pasadena Star News & Weekly, Conscience ), magazines ( University Mag., Simply 4 Pets), literary journals and anthologies ( Abraxas, Sojourns, Zyzzyva, Blank Gun Silencer, Fingerprints, Paws & Tales, Sport Literate, Mediphors, Me Three ), underground 'zines ( Inky Blue, Monkeywire ), and is posted on numerous websites. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film, "Turn of the Blade" (NorthStar Ent., '95), has taught creative writing classes at community college level, and coaches a championship track team of student/athletes. He ran the 2001 L.A. Marathon in 3:44:42. He lives with his wife, two teenage children, and breeds golden retrievers (Woof Goldens) in Pasadena, CA.

::11:23:07::

::: Like A Warning :::

so I'm out on another
run around the city,
when I spot this young lady
pushing a baby carriage
in the opposite direction
on the sidewalk ahead of me.
she's seventeen, maybe eighteen.
definitely attractive.

as we get closer,
two small words
imprinted in cursive
across the front of her
little, off-white t-shirt
come into focus,
revealing her story
like a warning to others:

"boys lie."

Written by: ~ Barkawitz

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